Winona Brown was doing my ultrasound, and I was stretched out on the examining table looking up at the chandelier.
Everything was friendly and relaxed, but then she said, "I'm going to call in the doctor to look at this."
I looked at the screen and saw a dark spot, like a flat loaf of bread.
Dr. Geeta Iyengar came in and conducted the rest of the ultrasound.
"Maybe it's just part of the structure of your breast," she said. "Let's see if there's anything in the same place on the other side."
But there wasn't anything like that on the right breast.
"It's a mass of about 7 mm," she said. "We will need to do a biopsy."
Soon I was saying goodbye to the chandeliers and orchids with a biopsy scheduled for a week later on Tuesday, April 22.
They had suggested Friday the 18th, but I try not to schedule anything but a visit to a church on Good Friday. I didn't want them to have to work on that day either.
Tuesday, April 15, and I had seen something they called a "mass" on the ultrasound screen.
It seemed really large to me. At home I tried to find it by probing, but it is deep in the breast near the muscle wall. I couldn't really feel anything.
I didn't tell my daughters or anyone else except my husband and my brother Bill about the biopsy being scheduled. No use alarming anyone--it might be just a cyst or a benign lump.
Everything was friendly and relaxed, but then she said, "I'm going to call in the doctor to look at this."
I looked at the screen and saw a dark spot, like a flat loaf of bread.
Dr. Geeta Iyengar came in and conducted the rest of the ultrasound.
"Maybe it's just part of the structure of your breast," she said. "Let's see if there's anything in the same place on the other side."
But there wasn't anything like that on the right breast.
"It's a mass of about 7 mm," she said. "We will need to do a biopsy."
Soon I was saying goodbye to the chandeliers and orchids with a biopsy scheduled for a week later on Tuesday, April 22.
They had suggested Friday the 18th, but I try not to schedule anything but a visit to a church on Good Friday. I didn't want them to have to work on that day either.
Tuesday, April 15, and I had seen something they called a "mass" on the ultrasound screen.
It seemed really large to me. At home I tried to find it by probing, but it is deep in the breast near the muscle wall. I couldn't really feel anything.
I didn't tell my daughters or anyone else except my husband and my brother Bill about the biopsy being scheduled. No use alarming anyone--it might be just a cyst or a benign lump.
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